One of the famous figure of 20th century British poetry‚ Ted Hughes was born in Mytholmroyd‚ Yorkshire in 1930. After serving as in the Royal Air Force‚ Hughes attended Cambridge‚ where he studied archeology and anthropology‚ taking a special interest in myths and legends. In 1956 he met and married the American poet Sylvia Plath‚ who encouraged him to submit his manuscript to a first book contest run by The Poetry Center. Ted Hughes was very passionate by animals‚ nature‚ myths and he used them
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In the poem‚ “A Birthday”‚ Christina Rossetti uses extensive and positive imagery‚ mostly pertaining to natural descriptions. In fact‚ the whole poem is composed of imagery‚ that are all solely for the purpose of relaying the sense of pure joy the speaker is feeling. The first line starts off with “My heart is like a singing bird” which gives the impression that her heart feels as elated as a bird does when singing. Another example is‚ “My heart is like an apple tree whose boughs are bent with thick-set
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As members of Future Business Professionals‚ we are writing to recommend a speaker for the fall semester. After researching several TED Talk candidates‚ we recommend that you invite Hanna Rosin. Rosin’s TED Talk‚ “New Data and the Rise of Women‚” offers an interesting perspective on gender roles‚ which will highly appeal to FSB students. In this memo‚ we will summarize Rosin’s talk and explain why we recommend her. Hannah Rosin is the co-founder of DoubleX‚ a website centered on news about women
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Everyday violence occurs‚ but what exactly causes people to have a violent outburst. Psychologists have developed five perspectives to help understand behavior; Neuroscience‚ behavioral‚ psychodynamic‚ cognitive and humanistic. I believe neuroscience is the best option to understand why people do violent actions. I choose the neuroscience perspective because it focuses on the facts and can be proven through a series of tests. Neuroscience is the study of the nervous systems. It includes the operation
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HSUN TZU AND MENCIUS: Their Conflicting Perspectives of Society The Warring States period in China (453-221 BCE) presented a time of great confusion and chaos among the people of China. However‚ it was also a great period for the philosophy of Confucianism‚ with the teachings of Mencius and Hsun Tzu to lead the way for their lost followers. According to Hsun Tzu and Mencius‚ human beings give birth to their children with a sense of an inherent reaction to life. Without proper teaching‚ children
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What a truly special evening it is that we are celebrating this evening - an evening all the more special because we are sharing this celebration with all of you. A warm welcome to everyone and thank you so much for sharing M.Rishaleni ’s 21st birthday with us tonight. It just wouldn’t have been the same without all of you - all the people who have played such an amazing role in her life. Tonight is M.Rishaleni’s night and we hope it will be a night that she remembers fondly in the years
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Birthday by Christina Rossetti Everything in the first stanza speaks of the happiness Rossetti sees around her‚ and the repeated expression ‘My heart is like . . .’ stresses this joy‚ but she says at the end of the first stanza that her “heart is gladder than all these” which implies that what the poet is feeling is more than she can put in words. The persona compares her heart to the “singing bird” to bring out how overjoyed she felt. This may imply that the author’s heart had the same energetic
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winter Olympics that changed a lot of people’s views on both figure skating and hockey‚ and finally the price and model of the new car of the century the SAAB 9000S. I hope to inform my audience well enough that I won’t need to tell anyone when my birthday is ever again they will already be well aware. First of all the front page of the New York Times had some very fascinating stories such as Israeli Army Ending 24-hour Incursion in South Lebanon in which Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah‚ spiritual
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Love and Death (Analysis of “When You are Old” and “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” by W.B.Yeats) Ⅰ. Love In William Butler Yeats poem "When You Are Old‚" an anonymous narrator requests of a former lover to remember her youth and his love for her‚ creating a surreal sense of mystery that only reveals some shadows of his own past love life. Yeats’ diction changes as the poem progresses from stanza to stanza. In the first stanza‚ I believe the narrator is a man‚ who wrote this poem for his
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C.B.S.E – Mathematics +1 English Literature – The Laburnum Top Maximum Marks – 30 Maximum Time - 1 hour 15 minutes * Two Marks Type: Q 1 ‘She launches away‚ towards the infinite’. Explain the given line. Q 2 Why is the image of the engine evoked by the poet? Q 3 What happened when the goldfinch came to the laburnum tree? Q 4 How is the tree transformed during the bird’s visit? Write the line that shows this transformation. Q 5 To what is the movement of the goldfinch compared? What
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